Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Live Long And Prosper!

I played around with the teaser image of ZacharyQuinto as Spock from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, by flipping the half portion image of his face from the magazine, to complete a full on head shot. As expected, the actor who is best known as the villain Sylar from NBC TV's popular drama series, Heroes, really does channel the character made famous by Leonard Nimoy in the classic 1960's version of Star Trek.

Coming next year from J.J. Abrams, Star Trek is a re-magining of the familiar characters and concepts from Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi series. This photo earns points from me even though I remain a bit leery of what the final film has in store for us. I mean come on, Nimoy too has been cast in the dual role of Spock.

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How it all began ....

In 1933, publishers at Eastern Color Press, intent to make better use of their printing equipment (which frequently sat idle between jobs), came up with the idea of printing an 8-page comic section that could be folded down from the large broadsheet to a smaller 9-inch by 12-inch format. The result was the first modern comic book. Containing reprints of newspaper comic strips, this experimental comic book titled "Funnies On Parade" was given away for free. It proved so popular that the following year Eastern published "Famous Funnies" and took the bold step of selling the comic for ten cents through chain stores. The enterprise was a smashing success and Eastern began churning out numerous reprints on a monthly basis. Other publishers, eager to get in on the profits, jumped on the bandwagon and the comic book industry was born!